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WORLD'S YdbSSESTF ATHLETE "SKINS CAT'4
AT ELEVEN MONTHS J
Dick Grant oh His Trapeze.
Minneapolis, Minn. Swinging himself on a trapeze or "skinning the
cat" on a horizontal bar is the way Dick Grant, the ll-months'-old Minnea
polis baby, amuses himself. Dick never played with a rattle, he never beat
a little red drum.
"When he was just able to creep, his father,- Dr. Riqhard Grant, the
well-known Harvard runner and all-round athlete, began teaching him
"stunts." His nursery is equipped with haby-size trapeze, bars and swings.
All" the tricks of an honest-to-goodness athlete are practiced by the roly
poly baby.
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Mrs. L. S. Sheldon of Lawrence, tice of the Supreme Court of Kansas
Kas., is a candidate for associate jus- on the non-partisan judiciary ballot,